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Former top Republican lawmaker in Colorado received leak of voting data

Posted on May 17, 2022 by Dissent

Alexandra Ulmer reports:  A former Republican minority leader of the Colorado legislature is among the recipients of a trove of sensitive voting data leaked by a county official working with activists seeking to prove President Donald Trump’s false stolen-election claims, according to court records reviewed by Reuters. The revelation indicates the breach of ballot data…

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How criminals got away with hacking Pennsylvania unemployment accounts

Posted on May 17, 2022 by Dissent

Angie Moreschi reports: Paula Soffa is just one of the thousands of Pennsylvanians whose unemployment insurance account was hacked over the past year— not once, but twice. “They changed my password, they changed my username, and they changed my security questions,” Paula told 11 Investigates Angie Moreschi. “I was like what the heck! I was…

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Texas Department of Insurance leak went undetected for three years — state audit

Posted on May 17, 2022 by Dissent

On April 5, DataBreaches reported: And then there’s the Texas Department of Insurance. They informed the Texas Attorney General’s office that 1,800,000 Texas were affected by a leak involving names, addresses, dates of birth, phone numbers, parts or all of Social Security numbers, and information about injuries and workers’ compensation claims. Anyone who had claim…

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UK: Central Bedfordshire Council leaked special educational needs students’ personal details

Posted on May 16, 2022 by Dissent

It’s a council two-fer today it seems when it comes to breaches of students’ information.  First we had the Cornwall Council item. Now we learn about how Central Bedfordshire Council leaked the details of ‘dozens and dozens’ of special educational need (SEND) pupils. The council leaked the details when responding to a Freedom of Information (FOI)…

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Ca: Elgin data breach ‘devastating’ for victims; county not transparent about incident – Cavoukian

Posted on May 16, 2022 by Dissent

Norman de Bono reports: Personal information for 330 people, some of it highly sensitive, was compromised by a “cyber-security incident” that knocked out Elgin County’s website and email system for nearly a month, the county said. Personal and employment information for county employees and some long-term care residents and former residents was dumped into the…

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UK: Cornwall Council Data Breach

Posted on May 16, 2022 by Dissent

The Cornwall council accidentally published the personal details of five schoolchildren in publicly accessible meeting documents. Cornwall Council has apologized for the data breach, including their names, addresses, and dates of birth. It made the error when it published online documents for a meeting of its School Transport Appeals Committee. Source: InformationSecurityBuzz.

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